I thought your lessons couldn't get any better. But you've taken the channel and site to a whole new level. I can't imagine how much blood, sweat and tears this would take. Great work! Champion!!
I just have to say that your new lessons are absolutely fenomenal. I recently found myself stuck in my playing, doing the same boring stuff over and over. Just as I was about to take a break from the guitar these videos came out and inspired me to keep pushing. With that said, thank you so much for your time and effort 🙏
Thanks again to the by far best and most inspiring guitar teacher on the internet. With your help really everybody can learn to play guitar to enjoy music with singing and playing actively. And the basics (and these are the really important things if you are going to learn an instrument...) are for free!!! Thank you so much for everything, and keep up your really great work.
Thanks Justin, just restarted my guitar journey again at 63 thanks to you. Cannot recommend your lessons highly enough, coupled with your App brilliant stuff 👍
There's so much to learn and these are things that can be absorbed while we're still at a very basic level.. there's no need to wait until you become much better to incorporate these little tricks into your playing arsenal!! Tks for sharing all this knowledge!! You're great, Justin!
Just wanted to say a big thank you Justin, I've been messing around with guitars for far too many years and getting nowhere, but having recently found you on utube your infectious style of playing has made me focus, I will be watching ech video and not moving on til I have mastered the content.
Love your app and how you have continued to develop it. Being somewhere between beginner and intermediate (picked up the guitar again after 20 years) there are some really good stuff there and it gives me sort of a lesson plan. Been a great thing to use to forget covid for a bit every day. Keep up the good work!
Really glad I came across you and your video instruction. Opens things up for me and I've been wanting to expand my style. The way that you instruct and explain techniques leaves all kinds of things for me to experiment with so that I can find my own way, rather than someone saying "Do this, that way's wrong" you demonstrate and then leave it to the watcher/listener to make their own decisions. And every video of yours that I watch i learn something. Perhaps a chord progression or something theoretical that I never thought of before. Kind of helps me to look at guitar from different angles and perspectives.. Thanks so much, this stuff is GREAT!!
I love the instructions. Mostly the part about not caring about the theory so much. I've been playing for 50 years and sometimes I still go back to the earliest songs I ever wrote. It was back in the day when I knew zilch about theory and would just make chord deviations and hear how they sounded. I've since gone back to figure out what I was doing and I will be mystified as to how I knew to to that. Now I realize, it doesn't matter! If you pick it and it sounds the way you want it to, go for it! I've had very limited instruction but honestly, one of the worst tips I ever got was, "Always know EXACTLY what you're doing and why." This came from a guy who was an amazing jazz player. Looking back, I think that stifled my creativity. My more interesting songs were the ones where I had no idea! I'm going to watch more of your videos and also get my daughter to try some!
I started doing that hammer on and hammer off with the low E string and B string , with the D chord.. and go into the C add 9 chord. ... Sounds good to me...
Sort-of totally off-topic. But I've really been loving. Hey Justin maybe you could teach people good stuff to play in the bebebe tuning. Really fun with the octaves and drone notes
These embellishments are great! I struggle with baring the b and e strings. My finger just won’t cooperate. 🤷🏼♀️🙄. Thanks for great lessons you provide !!!
Great lesson. You explain everything so well. Especially about what you hear and feel within what you are playing. Quick question what was the c bluesy type chord. Sounds very similar to what Wilko Johnson might play
These chord explorations are fantastic. I’m curious a few videos where you are going over things you talk about maximizing your hand position, so you trade out your pinky say for another finger, curious if you’d create an explanation for it. I find myself trapped when trying to play certain things and I’m thinking this is my problem. I figure if anyone can explain. It you’re the one who’d make it make sense to me and loads of others I’m sure.
Hi Justin. Noob question: What scale are you playing under that C chord? I love your lessons and approach to it for beginners like me. I've been trying to wrap my head around melody lines in chords and your recent lessons are bang on timed perfectly for me. Thank you!
Finally Justin you got the dollar heart donation thing. But you need a step between 10 and 50. Now it's going to take me forever to give you another $10 I have to wait for the first 1 to process. I've never given you money until now
I've always thought of all the basic chord shapes, that good-old "C" chord is the most "natural" when it comes to your finger shapes. For example, without a guitar in your hands, just swing your left-hand up in front of your eyes (in at totally relaxed way) until your palm is facing your eyes. ... Notice the "drape" of your left-hand fingers. They quite naturally form a "C-chord shape" (ignoring that pesky little finger). Just slip a guitar neck in there and voilà!... You are fingering a basic C-Chord.😇
"Natural" 🥲 I'll let you know as a beginner I'm struggling more with the C chord than the F chord. Curse my fat fingers. Putting that ring finger down without muting something is stupid hard for me.
I don't understand the caged 'system'. Isn't the 'D' just a 'C' moved up a whole tone? Other than open strings, what's the difference between what you're showing here and the D chord?
you use 5 shapes that resemble the open chords. Just remember that the open strings are the nut shifting up. A lot to explain in this tine box; go to www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/the-caged-system-introduction-tb-031 | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant for more info!
*This lesson is part of my NEW Beginner Guitar Course - Grade 3! Learn for free:* www.justinguitar.com/grade-3
I thought your lessons couldn't get any better. But you've taken the channel and site to a whole new level. I can't imagine how much blood, sweat and tears this would take. Great work! Champion!!
I just have to say that your new lessons are absolutely fenomenal. I recently found myself stuck in my playing, doing the same boring stuff over and over. Just as I was about to take a break from the guitar these videos came out and inspired me to keep pushing. With that said, thank you so much for your time and effort 🙏
Great to hear! Thank you very much :) Happy trails!
I feel your pain on doing the same stuff over and over.
Same here I had UA-cam on my tv going this came up ran got my acoustic and played for 5 hours!
Thanks again to the by far best and most inspiring guitar teacher on the internet. With your help really everybody can learn to play guitar to enjoy music with singing and playing actively. And the basics (and these are the really important things if you are going to learn an instrument...) are for free!!! Thank you so much for everything, and keep up your really great work.
Wow, thanks for sharing! Cheers :)
Thanks Justin, just restarted my guitar journey again at 63 thanks to you.
Cannot recommend your lessons highly enough, coupled with your App brilliant stuff 👍
You and me both.. Power to your fingers mate 👍🏼
Rock on!
There's so much to learn and these are things that can be absorbed while we're still at a very basic level.. there's no need to wait until you become much better to incorporate these little tricks into your playing arsenal!! Tks for sharing all this knowledge!! You're great, Justin!
Justin is the best, to me, I like his approach
I’m a decent intermediate player (whatever that means) but this opens my mind to new ideas. Thanks.
Great to read that! Cheers
I'm not going to think to much about the technical stuff, and these videos are solid gold! Thanks so much.
Just wanted to say a big thank you Justin, I've been messing around with guitars for far too many years and getting nowhere, but having recently found you on utube your infectious style of playing has made me focus, I will be watching ech video and not moving on til I have mastered the content.
Fantastic video Justin; soo useful, thank you ... again!
Love your app and how you have continued to develop it. Being somewhere between beginner and intermediate (picked up the guitar again after 20 years) there are some really good stuff there and it gives me sort of a lesson plan. Been a great thing to use to forget covid for a bit every day. Keep up the good work!
Really glad I came across you and your video instruction. Opens things up for me and I've been wanting to expand my style. The way that you instruct and explain techniques leaves all kinds of things for me to experiment with so that I can find my own way, rather than someone saying "Do this, that way's wrong" you demonstrate and then leave it to the watcher/listener to make their own decisions. And every video of yours that I watch i learn something. Perhaps a chord progression or something theoretical that I never thought of before. Kind of helps me to look at guitar from different angles and perspectives..
Thanks so much, this stuff is GREAT!!
I love the instructions. Mostly the part about not caring about the theory so much. I've been playing for 50 years and sometimes I still go back to the earliest songs I ever wrote. It was back in the day when I knew zilch about theory and would just make chord deviations and hear how they sounded. I've since gone back to figure out what I was doing and I will be mystified as to how I knew to to that. Now I realize, it doesn't matter! If you pick it and it sounds the way you want it to, go for it! I've had very limited instruction but honestly, one of the worst tips I ever got was, "Always know EXACTLY what you're doing and why." This came from a guy who was an amazing jazz player. Looking back, I think that stifled my creativity. My more interesting songs were the ones where I had no idea! I'm going to watch more of your videos and also get my daughter to try some!
Justin your lessons always make things seem so much easier with your explanations. Thank you so much. Love the channel.
This is fabulous lesson.
I can say as Justine R & D centre...
Thanks a ton for teaching everything new.......And keep us on our toes.
Thanks Justin, one more eye opener from you out of probably hundreds of them in just few months i am into your lessons! You re such a great teacher
I love how simple this guy is. Just a good dude! Thanks for the great information.
I really, really like these little lessons about basic use of specific chords.
Thanks!!
You're so much the best Justin!! You're been an awesome teacher a through the years
Really thank you for this great lesson, very useful for me..💯🤘
So many new looks and ideas in one video, thanks Justin!
I started doing that hammer on and hammer off with the low E string and B string , with the D chord.. and go into the C add 9 chord. ... Sounds good to me...
Great Lesson Justin 👍 thanks for sharing your knowledge with me. I very much appreciate it. God bless
thank you so much sir!I really like that i have free videos to learn from! This is a gift from god!
You are very welcome :)
Sir Justin Helpalot! Thank you, man! REALLY quick progress with yout teaching!
The quality of you content is amazing!!!
Dude lately your lessons are 👌 all I’ve been doing is watching this runing to the acoustic and getting these new cords down simple!
Sort-of totally off-topic. But I've really been loving. Hey Justin maybe you could teach people good stuff to play in the bebebe tuning. Really fun with the octaves and drone notes
Greatly appreciate your time and effort!
another great lesson, wonderful indeed. thanks justin.
Thank you!
Fantastic teacher
These embellishments are great!
I struggle with baring the b and e strings. My finger just won’t cooperate. 🤷🏼♀️🙄. Thanks for great lessons you provide !!!
Excellent lesson!
Great lesson. You explain everything so well. Especially about what you hear and feel within what you are playing.
Quick question what was the c bluesy type chord. Sounds very similar to what Wilko Johnson might play
These chord explorations are fantastic. I’m curious a few videos where you are going over things you talk about maximizing your hand position, so you trade out your pinky say for another finger, curious if you’d create an explanation for it. I find myself trapped when trying to play certain things and I’m thinking this is my problem. I figure if anyone can explain. It you’re the one who’d make it make sense to me and loads of others I’m sure.
Another great lesson. Thank you. 👏👏👏
you make it eatable :) cheers from the other side of the world ! (Denmark)
Thank you so much. Its helps me alot. Improve
Most welcome 😊
Excellent lesson.
Great lesson!!
Another incredible lesson thankyou Justin
Any tips on getting the 3rd finger to stretch closer to the fret on the A string while playing a C chord?
This is great! Thanks for this series. I'm headed to look into your paid lessons - love your teaching method
Thank you so much :)
Thank you for the very informative videos man!
Thanks! :)
This is a must see and practice for anybody that wanna have fun with guitar
:))
Fantastic thanks, as an aussie i love the kangaroo in the background
Great teaching! 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Justin. Noob question: What scale are you playing under that C chord?
I love your lessons and approach to it for beginners like me. I've been trying to wrap my head around melody lines in chords and your recent lessons are bang on timed perfectly for me. Thank you!
He's playing a descending C major scale, starting on the 5th (G)
And if you play a C7th and move it up four frsts, you have a very useful E7, especially if you play A chord
at fret 5
That's some great stuff thank you!
That's so cool - thanks ✌☻☮
:)
Thanks
This is a great tutorial!! Thanks
You're very welcome! :)
Thanks!
Thank you very much. Really appreciate it! Cheers :)
Wow what a great lesson thank you Justin!!
:)
Great stuff...... thanks 🙏👍😊
Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@justinguitar you are the best teacher on Internet and so well presented......easy to understand for anybody......... I am an ardent fan of yours 🙂
excellent lesson. thanks!
Can you also make a video on chords/variations that sound better with distortion ?
Nice lesson
Playing a G shape on the 8th fret is a cool sounding way to play a C chord.
You teach guitar 🎸 FREDOM . Than you🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
No one else can do a whole video about one chord and make it interesting.
Asking if you can show as where this chords can lead to( the next progression)
Subscribed after watching....
Thanks for this. 🎶💙
You're welcome :)
This is helpful. Thanks
Update: OMG this is incredible
Finally Justin you got the dollar heart donation thing. But you need a step between 10 and 50. Now it's going to take me forever to give you another $10 I have to wait for the first 1 to process. I've never given you money until now
Hey, whats that pick with the " strap " you have there ?
Im hearing Kansas Dust in the Wind with that C chord variation
I think I've watched this chord explorer series 3-4 times... and every time I think I got it all, I find another variant.
Good variations. It would be nice if you add the name of the chords
“If it doesn’t sound cool you stop doing it”. -Beethoven or maybe Justin
C is the cord I struggle with the most.I can’t for the life of me get my ring finger all the way out there
stupid question: why I don't get so much effect when I los the fingertip as much as you do?
I've always thought of all the basic chord shapes, that good-old "C" chord is the most "natural" when it comes to your finger shapes. For example, without a guitar in your hands, just swing your left-hand up in front of your eyes (in at totally relaxed way) until your palm is facing your eyes. ...
Notice the "drape" of your left-hand fingers. They quite naturally form a "C-chord shape" (ignoring that pesky little finger). Just slip a guitar neck in there and voilà!... You are fingering a basic C-Chord.😇
"Natural" 🥲 I'll let you know as a beginner I'm struggling more with the C chord than the F chord. Curse my fat fingers. Putting that ring finger down without muting something is stupid hard for me.
11:42 "you can see (C) there..." pun intended?? haha
Have I never notice the tattoo on your right arm or is it new
How many songs do you reckon come from guitarists just asking 'I wonder what happens if I take THIS finger off ... "
More than there are chords :D | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
I don't understand the caged 'system'. Isn't the 'D' just a 'C' moved up a whole tone? Other than open strings, what's the difference between what you're showing here and the D chord?
you use 5 shapes that resemble the open chords. Just remember that the open strings are the nut shifting up. A lot to explain in this tine box; go to www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/the-caged-system-introduction-tb-031 | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant for more info!
I'm really disappointed by his absolute beginner course 😭.
This isn't easy with small hands..lol
I have small hands also. You will get it. Just keep practicing and I guarantee it will come!😊
Thanks
Thanks for the support! Cheers :)